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The first alpine skiing medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be handed out on Saturday in the men's downhill.
The women's Alpine skiing downhill event at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will air on NBC and USA Network, and stream live on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms on Sunday, Feb. 8.
The athletes make it look easy. But rest assured, it is an intense ride down the mountain. Video footage captured by a drone shows what it’s like to go down the course that Alpine skiers will look to tame during the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.
A sell‑out crowd is expected to pack the stands for Saturday's men's downhill in the Italian village of Bormio, underscoring the enduring pull of Alpine skiing's marquee event, the first to assign gold at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.
Readers shared advice for how skiers and riders should behave better on chairlifts and trails and inside the lodge. The post The unwritten rules of skiing and riding on a mountain, according to readers appeared first on Boston.
The regulatory body for skiing on Friday dismissed as a “wild rumor” reports that ski jumpers are enhancing their groin area to gain distance as the Winter Olympics begins.
Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn and Ryan Cochran-Siegle are among the Americans to watch when Alpine skiing events get underway in Cortina and Bormio.
Big air snowboarding and big air freestyle skiing are fairly new to the Olympics. Here's what to know ahead of their events. (AP photo)
By Alan Baldwin CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The weather kept Lindsey Vonn waiting, but the U.S. ski great completed her first downhill training run at the Milano Cortina Olympics on Friday without her knee causing any obvious difficulty.